Edward Hopper Quotes

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics.

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Film is a truly magical medium.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.

Why talk when you can paint?